rudiger

Facebook options (specifically, put options) will be listed at the end of the month, but those are likely to be overpriced due to underlying volatility. You might want to write call options instead of buying put options, but that's also a risky strategy.

He's making this move before Facebook is public.

Once Facebook is public, the value of his stake is much more transparent (and harder to fool around with). In your first example, the valuation of a privately-held company determines the exit tax. In your second example, Facebook is a public company and its valuation is determined by a public market. Singapore has no capital gains tax, so if he exits now with the lower private company valuation, he won't pay taxes on the difference.

No, you don't.

I don't think we can agree on that. There certainly are many claims of consciousness existing beyond the human body. For example, see a "Unified Field" of consciousness.

> I mean, you don't believe that human consciousness somehow survives the body after brain death, do you?

Literally billions of people believe it does (see: pretty much all major religions). Maybe human consciousness doesn't survive brain death, but some other form of consciousness does?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

Email wasn't "back." It had never ceased to be important.

They can continue to extract massive profits from their existing market.